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Thanks Jay. Another pic of gorgeous buildings with such great architecture like the one Mike Byrd posted.

I would love to sit with the fellas on the porch. I wonder what the headline in the newspaper there reading was? Nice giant tree growing out of the porch to. I can’t be certain but it looks like locust.
Bryant

Bryant, if it's May 30th 1922, they would be reading, "Dedication of the New Lincoln Memorial" You probably could go sit on that porch, on Google street view it does not look much different.

I have lived in California all my life but this is the first time I heard of Downieville. Where is it? Must be up north somewhere.
Norm

Downieville is in Sierra County on HWY 49. It still looks pretty much the same after over 100 years.

Downieville looks like a cool Mountain town.
The photos show the same intersection. The buildings on the left of the old photo gone. The Grocery building now has a hip roof & painted red. Not the brick cornice molding & X design are the he same.
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.5603271 ... ?entry=ttu

Downieville California. Among the better known of California's early goldrush towns, is today a quaint historic town popular with visitors, in spite of the fact it is miles from any major town. The little town can become quite crowded during any of their many annual shows and festivals.

One of the things Downieville is most famous for, clearly acknowledges though not really proud of, was the only lynching of a woman in California! It happened in 1850, a Mexican woman killed a man that had broken into her home after a night of heavy drinking. A day or so later, she was still angry, and the man was nasty in return, so she killed him. His friends held a "trial" and found her guilty. She was taken out to the bridge crossing over the river to be hanged on a hastily built gallows while the townsfolk watched. It is said she fitted the provided noose to herself and hollered "Adios Senores" as she stepped off the scaffold. One of the town's small parks has a tribute to the sordid event.